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Caring for children with special healthcare needs and their families : a handbook for healthcare professionals /
Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals provides a guide for addressing the challenges of providing optimal general and routine care for the special needs population. More than just caring for the patients, the text stresses the i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ames, Iowa :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families : A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Common Physical or Sensory Disabilities; Cerebral Palsy; Diagnosis, etiology, and risk factors of CP; Presenting signs and symptoms of CP; Classification of CP; Prognosis and complications; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Role of nursing; Roles of occupational and physical therapy; Roles of speech and language therapy; Roles of social work and psychology; Transition to adulthood.
- Neural Tube Defects (Myelodysplasia/Spina Bifida)Etiology; Presenting signs and symptoms; Prognosis; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Roles of nursing; Occupational and physical therapy; Speech and language therapy; Social work and psychology; Transition to adulthood; Muscular Dystrophy; Etiologies of muscular dystrophy; Presenting signs and symptoms; Prognosis; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Roles of nursing; Occupational and physical therapy; Speech and language therapy; Social work and psychology; Traumatic Brain Injury; Etiologies.
- Presenting signs and symptomsPrognosis; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Roles of nursing; Occupational and physical therapy; Speech and language therapy; Spinal Cord Injury; Etiologies; Prognosis; Presenting signs and symptoms; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Roles of healthcare providers; Occupational, physical, and speech therapies; Social work and psychology; Children with Deafness and Hearing Impairment; Etiology of deafness; Presenting signs and symptoms; Prognosis; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Role of nursing.
- Occupational and physical therapySpeech and language therapy; Social work and psychology; Children with Blindness and Visual Impairment; Etiology; Presenting signs and symptoms; Prognosis; Common pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies; Role of nursing; Occupational and physical therapy; Speech and language therapy; References; Online Resources; 3 Common Developmental/Learning Disabilities; The Child with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Definition and presenting signs and symptoms; Etiology; ADHD in preschoolers; ADHD in school-aged children and adolescents.
- Psychopharmacologic management of ADHDPsychotherapeutic/behavioral management of ADHD (NIMH, 2008); Application to nursing and multidisciplinary practice; The Child with Intellectual Disability; Definition and presenting signs and symptoms; Prevalence of intellectual disability; Etiology; Diagnosis; Down Syndrome as Exemplar of Intellectual Disability; Application to clinical practice; The Child with An Autism Spectrum Disorder; Definition and presenting signs and symptoms; Prevalence of ASDs; Diagnosis; Application to clinical practice; MIA
- A Child with Down Syndrome; References.